See, all would have been fine if the OP has instead just said:
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I am having difficulty importing my own photos for use as a background image on the iPhone. No matter what I've tried, the photo loses too much resolution in the translation. Any advice?
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Of course that wouldn't have been nearly as vulgar and annoying.

Ditto. No idea what you're talking about. My background is attached. A photo I took in Rome.

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Hahahahahahaha! I see a lot of dithering in that photo. It looks like a cheap gif image and you think it looks perfect?

Anyways... the way I do backgrounds is manually copy flawless PNG files to my iPhone's camera folder using an app called "PhoneView". I have to do a little extra work by making thumbnail icons for them, but the photos come out crisp and un-dithered.

Try it out.

By the way... you don't have to be jailbroken to access the camera folder.

Hahahahahahaha! I see a lot of dithering in that photo. It looks like a cheap gif image and you think it looks perfect?

Anyways... the way I do backgrounds is manually copy flawless PNG files to my iPhone's camera folder using an app called "PhoneView". I have to do a little extra work by making thumbnail icons for them, but the photos come out crisp and un-dithered.

Try it out.

By the way... you don't have to be jailbroken to access the camera folder.

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Dude, there is no dithering there. Any dithering you see is caused by whatever you are using to look at the photo.

What do you call this then? Here, lemme zoom in so that you can't pretend it's not there.

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Of course if you ZOOM IN. You can't take 480x320 worth of image data, zoom it in, and expect there magically to be more image data. This isn't CSI with magic computers that extract additional picture data from nothingness. What's wrong with you, dude?

What do you call this then? Here, lemme zoom in so that you can't pretend it's not there.

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LOL - What's your next trick? Taking a Blu-Ray video, blowing it up onto an IMAX screen, and then using that as proof that Blu-Ray is poor quality?

Pointless demo.

What it looks like on the phone is what matters. Last time I checked, you can't zoom in on the lock screen!

EDIT: I just held my phone up to cmaier's original post...the image on my monitor here is almost 200% bigger than my phone's screen. Of COURSE it's not going to look so great. You blowing it up even more doesn't prove anything except that blowing up images makes them look worse.

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